"If we believe that people are mostly dishonest, ungenerous, selfish, gossiping, troublesome, we would better be looking at ourselves and trying to find out what is the matter with us."
—Lou G. Diven
"I venture to say that if there is one lesson written more plainly than any other across the pages of human history it is this, that God cannot be forgotten with impunity,—but for all that the popular tendency is to leave God out of account. I plead for the bringing of God back into touch with human life."
—Keator
OPTIGRAMS
The good we can think of is always possible.
To dole out a few turkeys at Christmas is good; but to have a social order where every man can buy his own turkey is vastly better.
Real sympathy is motional as well as emotional; energetic, as well as pathetic, taking no pleasure in "tears, idle tears."
Some people seem to enjoy giving publicity to their disappointments.
Women understand men better than men understand women.
The only personalities who hold permanently the devotion and admiration of humanity are the idealists.
You can preach the gospel through a handshake, a glance, a laugh, a lifting word.
What we don't know, never frightens us; it is what we half-know which is the fertile seed-plot of fear.
Golf is an artificial substitute for man's native need for work in the open air.
What we really care for in people is not their social standing nor the fashionableness of their haberdashery, but their kindness, reliability and integrity.
God has no stepchildren.
Naked, brutal force has never settled anything yet. Stoning Stephen to death only gave him a more distinguished immortality.
We do not want "peace at any price." We want to pay justice, truth, trust and good will for it.
—Hugh Elmer Brown
AUTHORS NAMED IN TEXT
Place where part or all of literary work was done
Anderson, Ada Woodruff, Seattle,18Atwood, Rev. A., Seattle,6Bagley, Clarence B., Seattle,5,7,8Balch, Frederick H.,16Ballard, Adele M., Seattle,28,30Ballinger, Richard A., Seattle,14Banks, Charles Eugene, Seattle,19,22Barnard, W. G., Seattle,16Bashford, Herbert, Tacoma,22,30Beaton, Kenneth C., Seattle,26Beaton, Welford, Seattle,11Beattie, Rolla Kent, Pullman,15Bechdolt, Frederick Ritchie, Seattle,27Bechdolt, Jack, Seattle,27Beecham, R. K., Everett,6Benham, Allen Rogers, Seattle,14Best, Gertrude D., Everett,21,35Blankenship, Mrs. George, Olympia,9Blethen, Joseph, Olympia,27Bolton, Frederick Elmer, Olympia,16Bowles, John Hooper, Tacoma,14Brier, Prof. Warren Judson, Everett,27Brown, Hugh Elmer, Seattle,36Bryan, Dr. Enoch A., Pullman,24Buskett, Nancy, Seattle,20Byers, Horace G., Seattle,15Carr, Sarah Pratt, Seattle,8,20Champney, Elizabeth Williams, Seattle,13Champney, Frere, Seattle,13Chittenden, General Hiram Martin, Seattle,11,15,26,33Club Women of Washington,17Coe, Alice Rollit, Seattle,22Comer, Cornelia Atwood Pratt, Seattle,19Costello, J. A.,19Crawford, Minnie Leola, Tacoma,13Curtis, Edward S., Seattle,5,12Dawson, William Leon, Seattle,14Denny, Arthur A., Seattle,8Denny, Emily Inez, Seattle,6Dillaway, Harry, Everett,28Dillon, Thomas J., Seattle,27,33Diven, Lou Gertrude, Olympia,19,35Dunbar, Ruth, Olympia,28Durham, N. W., Spokane,5,9Eastland, Florence Martin, Seattle,20Eaton, Edith M., Seattle,21Eells, Myron, Twana,8Fechter, Oscar Augustus, North Yakima,22Fielde, Adele M., Seattle,15,24Fisher, Mrs. Robert J., Seattle,17Fitch-Brewer, Annette, Lake Stevens,25Flett, E. B., Longmire's,12Fones, Warren and Alice (noms de plume),19Fowler, Charles Evan, Seattle,16Fraser, Mrs. Hugh, Winthrop,13Fraser, Hugh C., Winthrop,13Frye, Theodore Christian, Seattle,14Gilman, Isabel Ambler, Olympia,23Golder, Frank Alfred, Pullman,9Goodrich, Margaret, Seattle,23Goodwin, Sara Byrne, Seattle,28Gowen, Herbert H., Seattle,24Greene, I. Newton, Everett,27Harriman, Alice, Seattle,16,21,22,32,33Hassell, Susan Whitcomb, Everett,25Henry, Alfred Hylas, North Yakima,23Herrick, Huldah (nom de plume),18Higginson, Ella, Bellingham,10,17,23,29,31,36Holly, Ella, Spokane,19Hoskins, Jessie, Spokane,19Hughes, Alice Lockhart, Seattle,23Jacobs, Orange, Seattle,8Judson, Katharine Berry, Seattle,5,21,24,25Kaiser, John B., Tacoma,15Keator, Rt. Rev. F. W., Tacoma,35Kellogg, Mary L., Seattle,20King, Rev. E. A., North Yakima,23Knatvold, Bertha (Mallett), Tacoma,27Larson, Rose, North Yakima,28Libby, Martha E., Spokane,23Lowther, Granville, North Yakima,14Lyman, William Dennison, Walla Walla,5,6Mallett, Bertha Knatvold, Tacoma,27Meany, Edmond S., Seattle,5,7Meeker, Ezra, Puyallup,8,9Miller, Harry J., Everett,28Monroe, Ann Shannon, Tacoma,18Morgan, Henry Victor, Tacoma,35Moritz, Robert Edouard, Seattle,15Newell, Bernice E., Tacoma,27,31Ober, Sarah Endicott,18Optimus, Gertrude (nom de plume),21Osborne, Anna Brakham, Puyallup,28Padelford, Frederick Morgan, Seattle,23,24Parr, W. R., Granite Falls,20Piper, Charles V., Pullman,14,15Prosch, T. W., Seattle,6Prosser, Colonel William Farland, Seattle,7Remington, Arthur, Olympia,14Rice, Carrie Shaw, Tacoma,22,34Richardson, Oliver Huntington, Seattle,9Rigg, George B., Seattle,14Roberson, Harriett Gunn, Spokane,19Robertson, Mrs. Goldie Funk, Olympia,28Seattle Writers' Club,20Sisson, Edward O., Seattle,14Skarsteadt, Ernst Teofil, East Sound,10Smith, J. Allen, Seattle,15Snowden, Clinton A., Tacoma,5,7,34Stallcup, John C., Tacoma,16Stevens, Hazard,8Stevens, Helen Norton, Seattle,24Strahorn, Carrie Adell, Spokane,11Strong, Anna Louise, Seattle,22,34Sui Sin Far (nom de plume),21Sullivan, May Kellogg (nom de plume),20Tooker, Gertrude Fulton, Seattle,17Tuttle, Charles R., Seattle,10Underwood, John Jasper, Seattle,10Visscher, William Lightfoot, Tacoma,22Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs,17Wead, Elizabeth Young, Orting,28Weir, Florence Roney, Seattle,18West, Dr. Lester L., Everett,25White, M. Pelton, Seattle,28Williams, John H., Tacoma,5,12Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Seattle,12Wood, R. P., Everett,27Woodbridge, William Witherspoon, Tacoma,26,32Worthington, William, North Yakima,14Wright, William H., Spokane,16Writers' Club of Seattle,20
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.